settayah bratt

Library

random thoughts on entropy

June 5, 2020 No Comments

While waiting for our dinner to cook itself, I am contemplating several existential questions, struggling to understand why the clean gets dirty with ease but the dirty won’t change without resistance. Why everything beautiful takes years of effort, whereas the ugly flourishes even when left unattended. Why can’t I eat just one muffin and stop instead of gobbling them all up…

Reading time: 3 min

Written by: Settayah

Diary Gallery

libico maraja

May 26, 2020 No Comments

The moment my kids were born, I knew exactly which books I will put in their hands once they get old enough. Given that “old enough” to dive into the magic of books is about the age of one, I had plenty of time to prepare my list. A young brain perceives the world through imagery first so at the top of the list were several stories, beautifully illustrated by Ondřej Sekora, Libico Maraja, Beatrix Potter and Sandro Nardini.

Reading time: 5 min

Written by: Settayah

Eatery

homemade bounty

May 16, 2020 No Comments

This recipe for homemade bounties has been a staple in our kitchen for so long that it’s time for it to go and spread the joy to other households now. I had found it somewhere online more than 10 years ago so our children have literally grown up with mountains of healthy coconut chocolate treats.

Reading time: 2 min

Written by: Settayah

Family

memories from pulau ubin

April 23, 2020 No Comments

Here I am, sipping morning coffee, contemplating on all the beautiful places we have visited before the Age of Quarantine. It is great to have gigabytes of memories and photos to flip through when the world goes crazy and shuts down. People often use the tabloid advice “eat, drink and wear your new clothes” which is kind of true, if only ‘drink’ gets substituted with ‘travel’ for health and wellbeing reasons.

Reading time: 2 min

Written by: Settayah

Family

gender equality

February 28, 2020 No Comments

I feel very proud today because our family duo has finally managed to achieve perfect gender equality. Hanko Bratt loaded and unloaded three dishwashers, I did three laundry rounds, we ate the same amount of chocolate, sat in front of the computer for equal number of hours and shouted at the children with sentences having the same word count.

Reading time: 2 min

Written by: Settayah

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